Abstract. For years, transactional protocols have been defined for particular application needs. Traditionally, when implementing a transaction service, a protocol is chosen and re...
— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...
Context-aware services platforms aim at supporting the handling of contextual information in order to provide better user-tailored services. This paper addresses our current effort...
Context-aware Web service is an interactive model between the context of service requesters and the services in Web-enabled environments. We envision that providing context-aware ...
In the vision of ubiquitous computing, there are billions of context sources that continuously publish their contextual information, and even more user agents that search for and ...